Antillectual

On this day in 2011 we started one of our longest tours and our first support tour ever. We had a couple of shows on our own to warm up, but the bulk of the tour was together with a band we grew up on and looked up to: BOYSETSFIRE! Third band on the bill was the amazing letlive.!

The first show was at the A38 in Budapest, which is a boat on the Danube river. To make it extra exciting: Deez Nuts were added to the lineup and played first, and we had to follow them! We were stoked as little kids to experience a 3-band tour circus from “the other side”. Exciting, as we got to meet the people we looked up to and play the same stages and audiences. But the tour was also a reality check, as band members turned out to be normal humans, very humble and down to earth people.

We have great memories of the tour and the amazing shows, especially in Germany. We became friends with the people of BSF and letlive. Natasha and Chad would later help us out with guest vocals on our ENGAGE album and we love bumping in to them at BSF and The Iron Roses shows. We got extremely sad last March when we heard about the passing of founding member and drummer on the 2011 tour, Matt Krupanski, rest in peace. Lastly, credits to Destiny Tourbooking who invited us to this tour after releasing our album Start From Scratch via Destiny Records